Bubble Chart Pro 5.0 Makes Business Investment Decisions Easier

Wilmington, Delaware – Bubble Chart Pro(tm) Version 5 for Mac OSX Mountain Lion is here, and is loaded with some great new features to help make business decision-making easier, faster, and better. The new features let users:

* Create custom legends and assign color-pattern combinations to groups of project bubbles
* Use short text to categorize projects and plot the categories in bubble charts
* Assign date values such as project start dates and end dates and create time-series bubble charts
* Select common U.S. and European number and date formats for charts and data
* Have rejected-project bubbles automatically crossed-out in charts – this makes project selection much easier
* Control which legends that they want to display and where they want to display them in the chart

Bubble Chart Pro(tm) helps managers quickly find the value hidden in their business investment portfolios by letting them visually compare investments in multiple business data dimensions, such as value, cost, and risk. By visualizing their data in bubble charts, managers can quickly see and understand which investments are the most attractive and which are the least attractive. Bubble Chart Pro(tm) can be used to compare many different types of potential business investments, including R&D projects, marketing strategies, and new product development proposals.

“Managers can save money and reduce risk by using Bubble Chart Pro(tm) to help select their best portfolio of business investments,” says George Huhn, developer of Bubble Chart Pro(tm). “And they can get started today without needing to spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for an enterprise project portfolio management tool. We have made project prioritization and portfolio optimization easy and affordable for business people looking to start using modern analytics in their decision-making.”

Bubble Chart Pro(tm) starts at only $149.97 (USD). Additional options include an integrated SMART project prioritizer that assigns a value score for each project based on the user’s business objectives and goals and a portfolio optimizer for finding the set of projects that will deliver the maximum value when the business doesn’t have enough capital, resources, or risk tolerance to do all the projects. Bubble Chart Pro(tm) can also be used in Mac OSX 10.6.8 and higher and Windows XP through Windows 8 operating systems.

The Bubble Chart Pro(tm) family of applications is a product of Data Machines, Inc. Founded in 2000, Data Machines, Inc provides customers and clients with world-class business analytic software and consulting services for maximizing their business value. In addition to Bubble Chart Pro(tm), the company also offers Optsee(r), a powerful project portfolio management simulation and optimization tool. Bubble Chart Pro ™ is a trademark of Data Machines, Inc. Copyright (C) 2000-2013 Data Machines, Inc.